My father had Doc Egerton as a lab instructor at MIT, and I attended a bones workshop he led (really! It stands to reason that a man as bright as that would play bones!) I still have the practice bones he passed out, cut from pieces of straight lath and stamped with Egerton's office rubber stamp.

I used to catch clothes as they came offstage for Ann Corio's This Was Burlesque show, and Minsky's Burlesque Follies '76. I have a picture of me with Ann Corio.